{"id":78023,"date":"2018-04-24T08:02:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T15:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/organic-solar-cells-reach-record-efficiency-benchmark-for-commercialization"},"modified":"2018-04-24T08:02:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T15:02:52","slug":"organic-solar-cells-reach-record-efficiency-benchmark-for-commercialization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/organic-solar-cells-reach-record-efficiency-benchmark-for-commercialization","title":{"rendered":"Organic solar cells reach record efficiency, benchmark for commercialization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/organic-solar-cells-reach-record-efficiency-benchmark-for-commercialization.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an advance that makes a more flexible, inexpensive type of solar cell commercially viable, University of Michigan researchers have demonstrated organic solar cells that can achieve 15 percent efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>This level of <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/efficiency\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">efficiency<\/a> is in the range of many solar panels, or photovoltaics, currently on the market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrganic photovoltaics can potentially cut way down on the total solar energy system cost, making solar a truly ubiquitous clean energy source,\u201d said Stephen Forrest, the Peter A. Franken Distinguished University Professor of Engineering and Paul Goebel Professor of Engineering, who led the work.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018-04-solar-cells-efficiency-benchmark-commercialization.html\">https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018&#45;04-solar-cells-efficien...ation.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an advance that makes a more flexible, inexpensive type of solar cell commercially viable, University of Michigan researchers have demonstrated organic solar cells that can achieve 15 percent efficiency. This level of efficiency is in the range of many solar panels, or photovoltaics, currently on the market. \u201cOrganic photovoltaics can potentially cut way down [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}